Man.....this is a little gem!

Never really paid this much attention until recently...

And I love it!!!!!

(Prince's music is like a fine wine.....gets better with age )

this is the kind of weird shit i wanna hear from him for the next 4 years

I love it 2!but then again,I love everything Prince does!

That is the JAM!


Lynn

Great bass playing!!

One more here in total agreement! This track blows up big time!!! The turntable work puts me in orbit!

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hells yeah, that song is tight to death

wendyrachel said:

and some through oxidation turns to vingar

what cd is this on

pennylover said:

Crystal Ball... track 4 on disc 2 if I'm not mistaken

soulyacolia said:

The bass is absolutely bloody fantastic on this - gives me goosebumps - has to be played as loudly as possible!!!!!

AWESOME!

Imagine opening a show with this track...all dark with smoke and a white light strategically positioned

Me thinks Prince wants or requests that you say his name or tell him his name so much, Me wonders if Prince isn't so confused he forgets his own name.

I dig the song alot. Reminds me of Beastie Boys songs from that era (the beats/scratching).

It would have been great on one of his more mainstream albums (maybe TGE)?

fonkay!!i love when there are multiple bass lines.this is cool for a "lead" and "rhythm" bass line,so is "letitgo","le grind",and by stanley clarke,"play the bass 10".

LOVE this song.

During the Musicology era, I wanted him to release an EP with the following tracks:

1) Call My Name
2) What's My Name?
3) My Name Is Prince
4) What's Your Name?*

* unreleased track played in rehearsal, 1987

That would have been cool.

extremely overlooked. A true gem in a pile of turd that came out in that era.

This sucker is THICK and a great one-two punch with "Calhoun Square"

booyah said:

what 87 rehearsal is that?

Such a great track.

"take this bass..."

I need to add this to my Nano.

Damn, I wish Prince would do this song live! Did he ever do it live before?

OMG! I heart the Clash!!!










(and Prince's is pretty good, too)

HoneymoonXpress said:

I don't think he ever performed it with music, but at my first Prince show, July 31st 1993 at Wembley Arena, as he came back on for the encore set of new songs, the band played some background organ as he spoke the lyrics from What's My Name as a speech - at the time it was all very weird, as he had just changed his name to the month before, and as a new fan I just wanted him to shut up and play. When I heard What's My Name on a boot the following year, I had become much more engrossed in the ways of Prince, and thought the whole thing was kind of cool.

The speech also included lines from Race, if I remember correctly - I think he was working on both those songs around that time. He tended to throw lines from both songs into speeches between songs over the following year or two.

I'd love to have seen him play this in full with the '94-'95 NPG, or with the ONA band. Blackwell would tear this up, but there's no disputing that this song is a Michael B trademark.

booyah said:

I love the boot of this part of the show...except that annoying guy who keeps yelling "victor"